Andrea Perez

Andrea Perez concentrates her legal career in art law, business law, and intellectual property. She works with artists, galleries, museums, auction houses, collectors, art investors, and art professionals to assist them with their unique art-related legal matters. In addition, she represents both public and private company clients, as well as private equity firms and family businesses, with a variety of simple to complex corporate needs, including mergers, equity and asset acquisitions and dispositions, entity formation, governance, partnerships and joint venture arrangements, intellectual property protection, vendor agreements, master services agreements, and employment and contractor agreements, as well as a variety of other commercial contracts. Perez brings a wide variety of experience to her law practice, and aims to be an approachable, creative, and understanding attorney for those whom she represents.

Perez was raised in Houston, Texas, and licensed to practice in Texas and Florida. She earned a scholarship to attend Southern Methodist University, and graduated as a National Collegiate Scholar and with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. She graduated with a J.D. from South Texas College of Law. During law school, she studied international law abroad in Malta and interned with the Supreme Court of Panama, assisting with the development of their national mediation centers.

Outside of her legal career, Perez devotes much of her time to art and entrepreneurial organizations. Since 2010, she has sat on the board of Texas Accountants and Lawyers for Artists (TALA). TALA is a nonprofit organization that provides pro bono legal and accounting services to artists and nonprofits. Through TALA, Perez has organized numerous seminars related to entrepreneurship and the arts, and assisted hundreds of creatives with establishing best practices for their businesses. She has also been afforded the opportunity to work with many entrepreneurs as a presenter in the SMU Big iDeas program, and as a mentor with the Dallas Entrepreneurial Center. Perez was recently elected as a board member of The Cedars Union, a new art incubator in Dallas providing entrepreneurial programming and art space and materials to artists in North Texas.